Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the North and East route (ELR MAC3).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:02 | 🚆 2J41 | Lincoln → Grimsby Town Up (W → E) | approaching |
| 07:02 | 🚆 2F81 | Cleethorpes → Barton-on-Humber Down (E → W) | approaching |
| 07:23 | 🚆 2A14 | Grimsby Town → Matlock Down (E → W) | active |
On today’s timetable, Great Coates crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 52 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 6 minutes. Freight paths scheduled “as required” — most don’t run on any given day — aren’t counted here; when one does run, the live timeline above shows it.
Longest closure so far today: 8.0 min (06:25–06:33, 2 trains), timed from trains actually seen on the signalling wire — the window edges use the same per-type margins as the forecast, since barrier positions aren't in any feed we can read.
Closures cluster around 06:52–07:52 in the morning and around 20:21–21:21 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Great Coates is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Cleethorpes–Barton-on-Humber line (North and East route · ELR MAC3). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. Forecasts here combine the working timetable with live train-movement data (and live signalling where the crossing has it), so they reflect actual running including delays and freight — though they can still be wrong when the network is disrupted.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 464 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±3s (9 in 10 within 95s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.